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Subsidy removal increased FAAC disbursement by 29% to N15.1 trillion in 2023
The disbursement from the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) to the federal government, states and local government in 2023 reached N15.1 trillion representing an increase of 29.05% when compared to the…
‘N570m fraud’: Ex-HoS Oyo-Ita awarded government contracts to companies she owns, says EFCC witness
Hamma-Adama Bello, an official of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says Winifred Oyo-Ita, a former head of service (HoS), awarded government contracts to companies she owns or retains…
Why Pantami Annoyed Some Persons In Buhari’s Cabinet – Fashola
A former Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has explained why a former Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Pantami, was annoying to some people in the immediate past…
Japa: 975 Stranded Nigerians Returned From Niger Republic In 2023
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says it repatriated 975 stranded Nigerians from Niger Republic in 2023. The NEMA Coordinator, Kano Territorial Office, Dr Nuradeen Abdullahi, disclosed this in an…
Ruling In Israel’s Gaza Genocide Case For Friday
The UN’s top court said it would hand down its landmark ruling on Friday in the case against Israel over alleged genocide in Gaza, a verdict likely to be watched closely around the world. The International Court…
NIS gives two weeks for passport production after online application
The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Wura-Ola Adepoju, says it will take two weeks between the point of…
Court restrains IGP, DSS from withdrawing security details attached to Rivers lawmakers
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, gave an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the Inspector-General (I-G)…
For Netanyahu Will Be The Pebbles
Twelve years ago, when I visited England for the first time, one of the tourist attractions I visited was Madame Tussaud’s wax museum. I’d heard about the place way back in my school days because our neighbours and…
War: Houthis orders U.S, British nationals to leave Yemen
Yemen’s Houthi authorities have ordered the United States and British staff of the United Nations and Sanaa-based humanitarian organisations to leave the…
Meet Babatunde Sobowale, the 61-year UNILAG’s DLI overall best student
Samuel Ullman said, “You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” This best depicts Babatunde…
Foreign investors’ patience with Cardoso wears thin as reforms stall
Foreign investors’ patience with Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), is wearing thin over his reluctance to discontinue the apex bank’s punitive bank rules and raise market interest…
Police speak on explosion in Abuja, allay fears of bomb blast
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has debunked reports of a bomb blast in the Maitama District of the territory on Wednesday. In a statement by its spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, a superintendent of police,…
Plateau residents accuse security personnel of extrajudicial killings
Some residents of Mangu community of Plateau have accused the State own security outfit, Operation Rainbow, of extrajudicial killings in the area. The residents accused Operation Rainbow of leading mob “to either kill…
Deadly clashes erupt between Boko Haram and ISWAP in Lake Chad region
Boko Haram and ISWAP (Islamic State West Africa Province) terrorist groups recently engaged in a deadly clash on Tumbun Rago island in Lake Chad. The latest skirmish, occurring in the early hours of January 22,…
“Petrol prices will reduce as refineries commence operations” – CBN governor assures Nigerians
Olayemi Cardoso, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has predicted a reduction in the pump prices of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) petrol as refineries, both government and private-owned, begin…
Ex-Tottenham Owner And British Billionaire, Joe Lewis, Pleads Guilty To US Insider Trading Charges
British billionaire Joe Lewis, whose family trust owns a majority stake in Tottenham, is set to plead guilty to charges of insider trading. Lewis is accused of giving inside information about companies in which he…
Oyo Still Battling With Fallout From Ibadan Explosion, Says Governor Makinde
Oyo State governor, 'Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday, declared that the state and the people affected in the January 16, 2024 explosion in Bodija, Ibadan, will come out stronger, as the government has been working out a…
Apart From Nnamdi Kanu, Buhari Government Tried To Kill Me Many Times, Says Sowore
Human rights activist and candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 and 2023 presidential elections, Omoyele Sowore, has said that former President Muhammadu Buhari, also tried several times to kill him.…
Edo Condemns Deputy Governor, Shaibu’s Open Field Worship, Accuses Him Of Stirring Controversy Amid…
Edo State government has reacted to the controversy surrounding the renovation of the Interdenominational Government House Chapel after the Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu held Mass outside on Tuesday. Amid the rift…
Isale-Eko, example of worst urban decay – Descendants’ union chairman
In this interview with GBENGA OLONINIRAN, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, who served as an Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State between 2015 and 2019, Adeniji Kazeem, speaks on the degenerating…
PDP, LP ask questions on Tinubu’s France private visit
The Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party, on Wednesday, demanded an explanation as President Bola Tinubu departed Abuja for France on what the Presidency described as a private visit. The PDP Deputy National…
Extra: Tea causes ‘rift’ between UK, US
The recipe for how to make the best tea has led to a banter between two Western allies, the US and the UK. This is following an assertion by an American scientist, Michelle Francl, a professor of chemistry at Bryn Mawr…
Kidnappers are wreaking havoc in Nigeria – The Economist
…Yet President Tinubu’s security plan is worryingly like his predecessor’s How much politicians in Nigeria care about national…
Germany considers special visa schemes to recruit foreigners into army
Germany has disclosed a proposal to allow foreign citizens outside the European Union (EU) to join the military known as Bundeswehr. The…